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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, has just been published by Wicked Son. Her previous book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, was published in 2025. Access her work at: melaniephillips.substack.com.

The administration crosses two ominous red lines.
A new book is essential to understanding the current lunacy over Israel and the global jihad.
The U.K. government’s Prevent program fails to recognize the all-important continuum between non-violent Islamist narratives and terrorist networks.
As the culture hurtles towards the precipice, Diaspora Jews are like rabbits caught in the headlights.
Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides.
The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world.
The Department of Homeland Security has internalized the Palestinian big lie.
The attacks on Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount excursion defy reason.
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common.
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.
Someone needs to teach the Biden administration just what antisemitism is.
Hysteria over the new Israeli government will harm the wider Jewish world.